Hi!

I'm working on programming a PERL subroutine or global to extract a text sample of a webpage. Would supplement the "Description" meta tag, etc info.

Specifically, how would I extract the first 200 chars, (broken on word boundary) digest of a web page using LINKS SQL 2.12, stripped of HTML codes.

I will need this to run through all "200' (GOOD PAGE) valid links and insert to the links database in a custom field, let's say "page_extract".
Same goes for Title and Description meta tags, and email, but there may be code examples for that ...

thanks!

your question is kinda advanced for me, i... but maybe this will help you *somewhat?



Stripping HTML from a .html file - try this from a unix shell....

sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba' $YOUR_HTMLFILE_HERE |grep -v "&nbsp"